California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Richmond v. A.P. Green Industries, Inc., 66 Cal.App.4th 878, 78 Cal.Rptr.2d 356 (Cal. App. 1998):
The primary goal of statutory construction is to effectuate the statute's purpose. (Moyer v. Workmen's Comp. Appeals Bd. (1973) 10 Cal.3d 222, 230, 110 Cal.Rptr. 144, 514 P.2d 1224.) The declared purpose of section 340.2 is to afford victims of asbestos exposure the opportunity to seek compensation for injuries which are manifested years after the exposure. (Blakey, supra, 153 Cal.App.3d at p. 105, 200 Cal.Rptr. 52.) That
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